existing studies have found no association between addiction stigma and addiction symptoms (Ahern et al. 2007; Luoma et al. 2007; Schomerus et al. 2011), but one study found that perceived alcohol stigma was associated with an increased risk of AUD persistence (Glass et al. 2013b). Levels of perceived alcohol stigma have not been previously been described and compared across profiles of psychiatric comorbidity among people with AUD, which may be a necessary first step in understanding their interplay or devoting resources to the longitudinal study of mechanisms linking perceived stigma and psychiatric disorders in this population.
